Re: All that Jazz

This is a really wonderful, frenetic yet spacious jazz record. The first track from it is in Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, and aside from fitting the scene really well, I liked the song on its own so I looked it up. The album definitely peaks with that first track, but the whole thing is really solid.

Re: All that Jazz

My old client from a few years back had a brother in a semi-famous jazz band named The Bad Plus. They're from Minnesota and travel all over the world playing shows. Ethan, the pianist, is the one who I know.

Re: All that Jazz

I grabbed a bunch of jazz, blues and r&b box sets with my freeleech tokens, so I'm digging into the roots of a ton of stuff now. Been working my way through the Atlantic R&B box and the Ken Burns box, doing about a disc a day for the past two or three days. Lots of good stuff and it's interesting to see how closely linked rock, jazz, blues, doo wop, and soul were back in those days.

Re: All that Jazz

^Yes. She was a real treasure. Hell of a blues singer.

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Originally Posted by SoulDischarge

I grabbed a bunch of jazz, blues and r&b box sets with my freeleech tokens, so I'm digging into the roots of a ton of stuff now. Been working my way through the Atlantic R&B box and the Ken Burns box, doing about a disc a day for the past two or three days. Lots of good stuff and it's interesting to see how closely linked rock, jazz, blues, doo wop, and soul were back in those days.

Ha, nice. I fell into the roots thing a decade ago and never came back out of it. That Atlantic set is simply amazing; Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler were brilliant and Tom Dowd an equally brilliant producer. Those guys had incredible ears.